home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   MYSTIC      Mystic support echo      16,010 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 13,557 of 16,010   
   g00r00 to Bj”rn Wiberg   
   Re: Theme/prompt fallbacks and their var   
   04 Jul 21 09:31:01   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 1:129/215 b7fca9e1   
   REPLY: 2:201/137 d5aede0f   
   TZUTC: -0400   
    BW> The values of the Prompt, Text, Menu and Script variables (at least as   
    BW> displayed by the Theme/Prompt Editor) seem to override any values of the   
    BW> Def_Prompt, Def_Text, Def_Menu and Def_Script variables.   
      
   Prompt, Text, Menu, Script all define a theme to inherit from if any of those   
   items are missing from the current theme you're editing.   
      
   Def_Prompt, Def_Text, Def_Menu and Def_Script define whether or not to inherit   
   from whatever theme you configured in System Configuration as your default   
   theme if items are missing from the current theme or the theme you've selected   
   for inheritance.   
      
   So if you have "my_new_theme" and you want to inherit any missing menus from   
   "another_theme" then you would set Inherit Menu=another_theme so any menu that   
   cannot be found in my_new_theme will now try to load from "another_theme".   
      
   Then if "another_theme" doesn't have the menu, if you have def_menu=true then   
   Mystic will look to see what you have configured as the default theme and then   
   look in that theme for the menu.   
      
   If you edit in the theme/prompt editor and not the ini it might be more clear   
   as to how it works as there are descriptions that explain what it is doing.    
   The prompts editor will also tell you exactly where it sources a prompt from   
   (theme, inherited theme, default theme, or system prompts) when you use that   
   too.   
      
   For scripts, templates, text, and menus the load logic is this:   
   Theme then Inherited Theme then Default Theme (if enabled) then Nothing   
      
   For prompts its:   
   Theme then Inherited Theme then Default Theme (if enabled) then System Prompts   
      
   ... Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things   
      
   --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/07/03 (Windows/64)   
    * Origin: Sector 7 * Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 19/10 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 457 616 123/10 131   
   SEEN-BY: 124/5016 129/215 305 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 220/80 90   
   SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 6 242 360 226/18 30 227/114 201 702 229/101 310 424   
   SEEN-BY: 229/426 452 550 700 981 1016 1017 230/0 240/5832 249/206   
   SEEN-BY: 249/307 317 400 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1   
   SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 633/0 267 280   
   SEEN-BY: 633/281 410 412 414 416 509 640/1138 1321 1384 712/848 770/1   
   SEEN-BY: 2452/250 3634/12   
   PATH: 129/215 154/10 280/464 221/1 640/1384 633/280 229/426   
      

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca